OK. Here comes the blackwork. If you are interested in trying it, this is an excellent site. http://www.prettyim pressivestuff.com/blackwork.ht m I have used this site quite a bit...
This is the third location that I had in mind for the stretcher frame. It would work perfectly, if you could see the embroidery clearly....But I plan to put a bed at the front of the room....
OK....Sometimes the stream of consciousness thing gets in the way of other things.I went into the workroom with the intention of finding my favorite embroidery hoop....An hour later, I left with the ...
I must have stained about 50 planks this morning....The walking part was a lie.I am close to running out of planks again. I got the back wall of the second floor timbered. Some of th...
First you need a pattern. So out comes the graph paper. I drew up a pattern for a stomacher and the front of a mans coat. By no means a finished sketch. I just wante...
Remember the stretcher frame from yesterday? Forget it!It was irritating me. It just didnt seam right. I went back and looked at the engravings in the Saint-Aubins book an...
Sounds like Tessie....Actually, I started the embroiderers frame this morning. Very simple. four boards, four pegs and lots of carving and hole drilling.Heres the pattern, if you would ca...
Lucille was feeling sorry for the "Poor Threesome" in the comments yesterday....Poor threesome, my foot!!!While I get stuck with the cleaning and straightening, there they sit. ...
Its a beautiful morning...Except for the wind that is blowing sideways. I am opting to stay inside and keep away the allergies and sneezing.Therefore, I am wandering here and there. I am&...
Now that I know what is going to be happening in the Crooked Cottage, I am going to have to fill it.First I did a bit of searching and found that the English embroidery guilds go back...
This is the book that gave me the idea to turn the crooked cottage into an embroiders workshop. I found it on Amazon a couple of years ago. It is beautifully done and has really good info...
This morning I didnt get to mini, because we were out doing other things. This afternoon, I got some of the foundation stonework done....At least put in place. I finished the main bui...
Its getting pretty bad when I start off on a sidetrack of beading and then get sidetracked from that to kumihimo, but thats what happened.You see, the kumihimo boxes and the pendant boxs were ri...
This morning, I found Zar working on the chimney when I awakened. He couldnt manage the paint bottles, so he tried chalk pastels. Good try. It seems to me that the color wa...
I went to look for the big packs of Sharpies in lots of colors this morning and neither Walmart or K Mart had anything but hot eighties colors. Not suitable for stained glass.Sooooo....I w...
I went to do some stained glass windows for the Weavers Cottage this morning and found that a lot of my colored Sharpies are dead or dieing.Rather than making a run to town, I decided to try what I h...
Today, you only get a tiny bit of mini-ing. I went to the mini meeting this afternoon.This morning I had this mess on my bed. That was the largest surface to spread out the boxes.I a...
...Not nobody! Not no how!I knew that there was a reason that Tessie wanted that window in the inglenook...Yup. Shes asking for passwords now.As you can see, I have been doing actua...
OK. I didnt get to minis until about 2:30 PM. Consequently, I didnt get a lot done.April and son came over about 10:00 this morning and the minis went out the window. We had a good ...
First of all, Happy Moms Day to those of you that celebrate it today.My title refers to Widgets latest whim....Every day we put all of his toys back in the basket and sit it up by the sewing machine....
Periodically, Tessie just plain wears out her hands and feet...Thats when I get to play Doctor Frankenstein...If you could see me now, you would see a mad woman wringing her hands and grinning a lot....
I am a very bad mini builder today. I am a very good entertainer of miniature people though. I spent the morning over at Aprils. This is the mini person that I was entertaining.&nb...
OK....I am spotted in the usual stain that I seem to collect when I do half timber houses....Therefore, I wont bore you with photos of sticks and stain.I will, instead, continue with the twining that...
Here you go. Proof that I finished all of the walls. The interior is the same as it was before all of the gessoing... The Terrible Two approved of that so, no problem there. The top story is Ceramcoa...
Remember that six year old with the short attention span? I have decided that her attention span is fine. Its her mind changing abilities that I now question...I kept trying to talk myself into being...
My motto is "Never plan ahead...". That would save too much time and trouble....No fun at all.This morning, about 3:00AM, I woke up with a plan in my head... OK. So I planned a little bit ahe...
OK. I finished the baskets...I dont know where these baskets originated. I have been making them this way for over 25 years. Someone taught me when I first started doing minis. I have seen them in bo...
OK. Its the same thing I do every year on vacations. I am a natural scavenger. I collect things to bring home. Some things I buy. Others I collect....This year, in Carmel, I hit the jackpot in one li...
The first thing this morning, I went to find my stain pens and discovered that they were pretty much empty. I think that I mentioned refilling them once before, but I have never shown you.This is a p...
"Im hip deep in llama wool! Help!!!". That was Tessies voice coming from somewhere deep in a pile of wool roving this morning. Since I had started back to work on the weavers workshop, I thin...
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